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• UK Kids Start School Lacking Toilet Training
  From an unfazed BBC News: BBC News – More pupils wetting themselves, say teachers More pupils wetting themselves, say teachers Hannah Richardson – BBC News education reporter 6 February 2012 More children are starting school before they are fully toilet trained, teachers say. A snapshot survey suggests many primary school staff are noticing a rise [...]
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
• DC Workers Stole $800K In Jobless Benefits
  From an un-outraged Washington Post: D.C. workers face potential firing in alleged unemployment fraud By Mike DeBonis February 6, 2012 Nearly 90 city employees were suspended Monday and face potential firing and prosecution for receiving unemployment benefits while holding their city jobs, District officials said. They face "potential firing and prosecution"? What would they have [...]
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
• 1/3rd Of US Get ‘Means Based’ Assistance
  From CNN’s Money.Com: More than a third of Americans live in households receiving government assistance. Government assistance expands By Tami Luhby February 7, 2012 NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — More than one in three Americans lived in households that received Medicaid, food stamps or other means-based government assistance, according to a new report. And when Social [...]
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
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• ‘Green Car’ Maker Fisker Lays Off Workers
  From the Gaia cultists at the Associated Press: Electric car maker Fisker: Layoffs in Del., Calif. By RANDALL CHASE, AP Business Writer February 6, 2012 DOVER, Del. (AP) — Fisker Automotive, an electric car maker that received a half-billion-dollar loan from the federal government, said Monday that it has laid off workers in Delaware and [...]
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
• The Hive – Please Talk Among Yourselves
  Here is our usual weekend discussion thread, where comments on the general topics of the day are welcome. But please remember to post and comment on specific news items in the ‘News Selected By Our Correspondents’ thread below or via the link found in the sidebar. Thanks!
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
• Selected News For The Week Feb 3 – Feb 9
  This thread is for the busy bees of S&L to post news articles that may not warrant their own thread. Posting Guidelines To make the articles as readable as possible, please: Only post ‘hard news’ from establishment media outlets. Avoid editorials and ‘thought pieces’ unless they are truly newsworthy. Eschew major news items that most [...]
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
• Record 1.2M Left ‘Labor Force’ In January?
  From ZeroHedge: Record 1.2 Million People Fall Out Of Labor Force In One Month, Labor Force Participation Rate Tumbles To Fresh 30 Year Low by Tyler Durden 02/03/2012 A month ago, we joked when we said that for Obama to get the unemployment rate to negative by election time, all he has to do is [...]
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
• Happy Days! Unemployment Rate Down .2%
  From a giddy Associated Press: Unemployment rate hits 8.3 pct. after hiring burst By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER February 3, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — The unemployment rate fell for the fifth straight month after a surge of January hiring, a promising shift in the nation’s outlook for job growth. The Labor Department says employers added 243,000 [...]
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
• Miracle! Homelessness Is Down Under Obama
  From the Partnership For Strong Communities: Report Finds Marginal Declines in U.S. Homelessness January 23, 2012 A new report from the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) shows a nationwide 1% decrease in homelessness, although NAEH notes that this is not indicative of a permanent trend. The NAEH report, “The State of Homelessness in America [...]
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
• Hundreds Of Poor Freeze To Death In Europe
  From an unfazed Agence France-Presse: 218 dead as cold snap grips Europe February 3, 2012 Temperatures plunged to new lows in Europe where a week-long cold snap has now claimed more than 200 lives as forecasters warned that the big freeze would tighten its grip at the weekend. In the Czech Republic, the mercury dropped [...]
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
• Indiana Becomes 23rd ‘Right to Work’ State
  From an irate (but going broke because of their union contracts) New York Times: Indiana Governor Signs a Law Creating a ‘Right to Work’ State By MONICA DAVEY February 1, 2012 Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana, who had once said that he did not wish to add a “right to work” provision to the state’s [...]
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
• House Bans EBTs At Strip Clubs, Senate Won’t
  First we had this earlier report, via US News and World Report: House Set to Ban Welfare Payments at Strip Clubs GOP moves forward on bill to halt welfare payments at strip clubs, casinos. By Alex M. ParkerJanuary 31, 2012 … The [House] chamber will again vote Wednesday on a bill which would ensure that [...]
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
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• Man In Obama Mask Robs Florida McDonald’s
  From the Palm Beach Post: [PBP caption:] A gunman wearing a mask resembling President Barack Obama robbed a Riviera Beach McDonald’s Saturday morning, police said. Surveillance photo on left, Barack Obama-type mask at right (not actual mask) [sic]. Man in Obama mask robs Riviera Beach McDonald’s By Cynthia Roldan February 1, 2012 RIVIERA BEACH—Authorities are [...]
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  

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